That was pretty awesome, but NSFW if anyone else happens to care.

I don't want to get into another gun control debate, but in terms of ignoring science. If you look at the broader scope, gun control works in may other places. Australia, Japan and the UK are three countries that turned them selves around after enacting stick gun control.

So once again the R's are ignoring the data as a whole and opting to take a smaller sample, that's only ever had what I could call half assed measures and failed because they lack teeth and are repeatedly repealed because they don't work right away, to supports their specific agenda.

To further your point, wasn't it George Bush that brought in the Patriot Act? and wasn't he a Republican?

Fighter Planes, how much were those suppose to cost again?

Ah, I don't know if anyone's told you, but you don't have to buy games from them. There are plenty of awesome indi games and you can write your own if you choose, not impossible to do on consoles, but very difficult and expensive. On the consoles the DRM is at the device level, for PC gaming the DRM is at the game level. If you don't want DRM on your PC don't buy games with DRM, you don't want DRM on your console, then don't buy a console/no games for you.

Say what?

The government doesn't regulate the government here. Fish surveys are done to collect data, which is used to set quotas and regulate industry. Industry only cares about profit not sustainability, without the regulation they will over fish, as demonstrated by the fishery on the Grand Banks around Newfoundland and the Gulf of Maine East of the New England states.

Yeah, let private industry do their own wild life and fish surveys and use the data to self regulate. What could go wrong?

Sorry, I'm a dear in the headlights on that one.

Most of the people in the Maritimes region that were "relocated" were then "work force adjusted" several months later, meaning the relocation was a temporary step to firing them. Then to claim "fishing enforcement" is the same as data collection used to support science!! Data collected in fishing surveys is used to determine how necessary services such as "fisheries enforcement" are, not the other way around.
You sir are off your rocker.

We have the "wild rose party" in Alberta instead.

Where do you think the data to do the science comes from? Fisheries and Oceans has closes dozens of data collection sites just in the Maritimes region alone. It's awfully hard to argue that industry is over fishing or that salmon farms are contaminating wild fish stocks when there's not data to back it up and scientist are under muzzle orders.

I'd also like to point out this could be MS shrills trying to make a major issue seem less relevant by making it look like "the cool kids" don't care about it.

Remember back when Windows 8 was in Developer and Consumer preview. Every article on every tech blog was flooded with "I've used Windows 8 since XXXX and it's totally awesome!!!111!", Which we all knew then and know now was a load of crap. I have no doubts that SOME people like Windows 8, but with the number of comments parroting the exact same response appears more than four times by different people in the same form or comment section you know something isn't right. Now we see people on /. posting that they're looking to buy accounts with low IDs. Obviously so when they start posting about Windows 8.1 or Windows 9 or whatever other product, they'll seem more creditable, as the Higher more recent IDs belonging to accounts that have no other posts except "I've used xxxxx and it's totally awesome!!!11!!" are a dead give away when someone is shrilling.

Public perception is a huge part of the battle companies like MS are fighting to sell their products. Social manipulation is one of the weapons they use to make people with relevant concerns feel like outliers that don't have a leg to stand on so they might as well conform. They do everything they can to shut down critics. I wish I could find the manual I read a while back that described some of the techniques like posting garbage content in comment sections to push relevant critical material as far down the page as possible so it's unseen. If I find it I'll come back and link to it.

You're like the kid at the magic show that goes around pointing out how the magician did all his tricks. Thanks for ruining the show.

FTFY, I'm pretty sure you didn't intend to lump the indi consoles like Ouya and game stick in with the big guys. I hate to make a "This is the year of" prediction, but I think some of the casual consoles will pick up a bit of steam with the crap Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are putting out.

Of course PC still reigns supreme in any case, especially with gaming becoming more common on Linux boxes.

I think it's a contributing factor to why they're poor in the first place.

Number one, that's not a lot of well regulated militias, only existing in one of the five states I ever lived in.
Number two, most gun owners don't belong to those "well regulated" militias.
Number three, it doesn't change the fact that the right to bare arms only apply to people belonging to a well regulated militia so the point still stands.